Mark Hanna Quotes

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

We don’t want to break what isn’t broken trying to fix what is.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

Never get comfortable.

You don't want to get complacent and just accept things - just because we've had those moments and we have come so far, you don't want to ever take that for granted, because the moment you do, it can all go away.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Stop talking about the way things are, unless you like them.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

The status quo is working.

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.